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Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…
Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nigh. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of Christ. And, 3 The Excellency of mans immortal soul. By Jeremiah Burroughs, late preacher of the gospel at Stepney, and Giles-Cripple-gate, London. Published by William Greenhill. William Bridge. Philip Nye. John Yates. Matthew Mead. William Adderly.
London: printed for Nath. Brook, 1660
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Treatise 2 › Sermon 1: The First SERMON ON The Excellency of Christ.
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In the fourth place, Christ is wonderful in the wonderful Works that he came about into the world; the work that Christ came into the world about, is the greatest, and the most wonderful Work that ever was undertaken since the world began, or can possibly be undertaken: Why what was the Work that Christ came into the world about?
In the fourth place, Christ is wonderful in the wonderful Works that hee came about into the world; the work that Christ came into the world about, is the greatest, and the most wonderful Work that ever was undertaken since the world began, or can possibly bee undertaken: Why what was the Work that Christ came into the world about?
It was first to stand between God, the angry God,1 God provoked with mans sin, and sinful man. It was to be a Mediator between God and his creature, it was to reconcile God and man together that had sinned against him, and was turned enemy to him; the Work that Christ came to do, it was to make up all the wrongs that sin had done, that sin had brought to God, Christ came to make up the vast infinite breach that there was made between God and man, so to procure Reconciliation for man, as to make God amends for all the sin that had been committed, here is the work that Christ undertook, he undertook to pacify the wrath of God his Father, in such a way, as that it should be let out upon him, and he would bear what ever fruits of Gods wrath was due to the sin of man, he came (I say) into the world for to reconcile God and man, to make up all the breach, and to make restitution of all things; not only to make up the breach that was made between God and man by mans sin, but to make up the restitution of all things; whereas by mans sin all the works of God in this world had almost been frustrated, and had mans sin gone on, God had not had the glory that he made the world for; now Christ he comes into the world to make up all again, that his Father might have full glory from all his Works. Yea the great Work that he came into the world about, was, that he might bring this to pass, that God his Father should have further glory now from his work, than ever he should have had, if so be there had never been